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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019
Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480290
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464963
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Dams
Duflo, Esther - 2005
dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … implications, and has, in aggregate, increased poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466961
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Depression and Loneliness Among the Elderly Poor
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Grela, Erin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
alone, we document that social isolation, poverty, and health challenges are three of the leading correlates of depression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388786